CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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diagramming in CommonParlance
- definition providing a chart or outline of a system
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diakinesis in CommonParlance
- definition the final stage of the prophase of meiosis
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dial in CommonParlance
- definition the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- definition the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- definition the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
- definition a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- definition operate a dial to select a telephone number
- definition choose by means of a dial
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dial phone in CommonParlance
- definition a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called
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dial telephone in CommonParlance
- definition a telephone with a dial for registering the number to be called
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dialect in CommonParlance
- definition the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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dialect atlas in CommonParlance
- definition an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features
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dialect geography in CommonParlance
- definition the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features
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dialectal in CommonParlance
- definition belonging to or characteristic of a dialect
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dialectic in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or employing dialectic
- definition any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- definition a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
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dialectical in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to or employing dialectic
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dialectical materialism in CommonParlance
- definition the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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dialectically in CommonParlance
- definition in a dialectic manner
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dialectician in CommonParlance
- definition a logician skilled in dialectic
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dialectics in CommonParlance
- definition a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
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dialectology in CommonParlance
- definition the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects
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dialog in CommonParlance
- definition a conversation between two persons
- definition the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
- definition a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
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dialog box in CommonParlance
- definition (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
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dialogism in CommonParlance
- definition the use in a text of different tones or viewpoints, whose interaction or contradiction is important to the text's interpretation.
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dialogue in CommonParlance
- definition a conversation between two persons
- definition the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
- definition a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
- definition a discussion intended to produce an agreement
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dialyse in CommonParlance
- definition separate by dialysis
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dialysis in CommonParlance
- definition separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes
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dialysis machine in CommonParlance
- definition a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes
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dialyze in CommonParlance
- definition separate by dialysis
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dialyzer in CommonParlance
- definition a medical instrument for separating substances in solution by unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes